What's the Difference Between a Sports Car and a Supercar?

What’s a Sports Car?

A sports car is typically a two-seater vehicle that’s designed to offer speed and superior handling. For a sports car, the speed and how fast it goes is all that matters, not the number of people it carries or the luggage it can hold.

Today, a sports car is usually prepared for racing, particularly a two or four-passenger vehicle that is aerodynamic, has a low centre of gravity, and has steering and suspension for accurate control at high speeds

General Features Of A Sport Car

Sports vehicles’ power and high-performance levels result from their engines. The most popular engine type is the six-cylinder or V6, but these engines can range from 3 to 8. Most manufacturers use turbochargers instead of larger engines to reduce emissions but provide similar power.

Metals like aluminum, steel, and zinc are utilized to create sports cars because they have lighter bodies, are more durable, and resist corrosion.

Examples of A Sports Cars

Toyota GR86
The Ford Mustang
The Porsche 911 (GT3RS and high-performance versions are considered supercars)
Porsche Boxster
Chevrolet Corvette
Chevrolet Camaro
BMW Z4
Toyota GR Supra

What’s a Supercar?

Sports cars and supercars both have great performance and fashionable exteriors. Supercars, however, outperform sports cars in terms of design, performance, and features. These cars have the best components available for rarefied outcomes, distinguishing them from sports cars and supercars.

General Features

The supercar shares many of the same characteristics as a sports car, but it has more advanced technological elements. These luxury automobiles’ come with more current models equipped with V6s, V8s, and V10s engines.

Here are some examples of Supercars

Lamborghini Huracan & Aventador
Ferrari SF90 Stradale
Audi R8
Mclaren 570S
Acura NSX
Ford GT
Aston Martin Vantage

What’s the Difference Between Sports Cars and Supercars?

Engine Performance

A car’s performance is what most clearly distinguishes a supercar from a sports car. Speed is the only consideration when we design supercars. They have strong engines that enable them to speed from 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than 4 seconds.

On the other hand, sports cars frequently take a more balanced approach to performance and power, as reliability and practicality are somewhat a priority.

Pricing

When it comes to price, there is a big difference in the price tags of supercars and sports cars. Supercars are more expensive, making them much more exclusive. A new supercar is expected to cost $200,000 upwards. However, it can be less at times and certainly go higher, depending on the model and when the car was built.

Sports cars are widely available at a range of prices. A new model can be purchased for around $31,000 and 170,000. The price depends on the model and year the car was made.

Popular Supercars you can find in Ghana

Ghana is home to many cars, compact cars, matchbox-type cars, sedans, SUVs, big cars, small cars, in between cars, you name it, they are here. These are in the majority though, exotic cars are quite rare here, but there are still some sweet supercars in Ghana.

If you hang around the airport, Airport shell, 37, or Cantonments, you may have caught a glimpse of one or two supercars.

Here are some of the supercars that have been spotted on the streets of Accra